Chapter 71: The Unbearable Bustle

  Nuo Si and Fu's kneeling made both sides feel ridiculous! The parties involved didn't think so, Nuo Si and Fu muttered to beg Li Yuanba for mercy, without even a hint of resistance! Li Yuanba only felt bored, this was just getting interesting, but the one who started the fight first knelt down and begged for mercy, what's the point of that?!

  Li Yuanba completely lost his interest in playing, and directly condensed into a war armor, burning the opponent to ashes! With a wave of his hand, he grasped the twin hammers and launched an impact! The opponent had nearly a thousand million troops, while the Tang Dynasty only had around a hundred million. However, it was the side with fewer people that initiated the charge, making this a rare battle!

  Li Yuanba first launched a few peerless attacks, and the Russian army appeared with a huge gap! Such an attack can be said to have knocked out their last bit of will to fight. With the momentum of the Great Tang army advancing forward without any obstacles, they were defeated like a mountain collapse, and retreated in disarray for thousands of miles! The joint forces of various powers could only fight a downhill battle, and once a reversal occurred, it was easy to see the weaker side being pursued and killed! Moreover, the Great Tang was originally a cavalry-based army, and this kind of pursuit was very handy for them! In this war, nearly three million enemies were killed. The enemy suffered over a hundred million casualties in their frantic escape, and internal conflicts arose within Russia itself. This is also a common evil phenomenon among humans, where vicious incidents often occur during the initial chaos of escaping... How could the Russian army, which had been broken in spirit, be compared to the Great Tang army, which was as fierce as wolves and tigers? Moreover, in such a large region, the number of locust-like bandits coming to plunder was far greater than that of the military! Within the borders of the Great Tang, it was basically "three empty rooms out of ten", representing that three-tenths of the population had gone to loot...

  Li Yuanba returned home after resolving the border army, and for more than five years, he had not seen his newborn son. Li Yuanba was also homesick!

  It's already the year 636, and Li Yuanba is also 38 years old! Thirty or so is also an age where one misses home the most. The troops of Ruo Si are basically crippled, without Li Yuanba's participation, it would just be a matter of time!

  Li Yuanba returned home with peace of mind, playing and having fun with his children every day! Five years had made Li Sih-yue very familiar with her father, but everything else seemed a bit strange and distant! This made Li Yuanba feel depressed, so he decided to spend more time with his wife and children in the future, even if it meant taking them all out when he went out. But soon he was met with opposition, jokingly saying that this was playing with the lives of the children!

  From then on, Li Yuanba felt very guilty towards his children. Whatever they asked for, he tried his best to satisfy them! Fortunately, the kids weren't too spoiled and were still within the normal range of children, except for their cultivation which didn't match theirs.

  Li Yuanba was bored one day, looking at his own children and suddenly wanted to see the children of several brothers. The great general Li Yuanba wants to invite all the nephews and nieces to gather in the palace for a meal, which makes the twenty-two brothers very excited, this shows that Li Yuanba is concerned about his family!

  More than a hundred nephews and nieces gathered at the Wang Ye's mansion, even infants born just a few months ago were brought over.

  So many people, Li Yuanba also can't keep up, but let them record down all the children's names and birthdays, and slowly get familiar with them later! However, only a few people were remembered by Li Yuanba, among whom two of his nieces made Li Yuanba very familiar, this familiarity seemed to have an impression since their past lives, just these two! One was Li Shimin's fifth daughter, Princess Chang Le Li Lizi, and the seventeenth daughter, Princess Gao Yang Li Ling.

  The most familiar one is Princess Gaoyang, and when Li Yuanba saw this title, he only knew that Gaoyang was called Li Ling. In Li Yuanba's impression, this Princess Gaoyang seemed to have rebelled, but for some reason, he just couldn't remember why! However, Li Yuanba still liked these two nieces very much, because both of them had the elegant and refined air of ancient books. Chang Le was a representative, who personally painted a full-body armor painting for Li Yuanba at the banquet, although Li Yuanba thought that the person inside was completely different from him, but the person inside brought out Li Yuanba's domineering aura!

  Gao Yang also wrote a couplet to give to Li Yuanba, with beautiful and powerful calligraphy that showed great skill!

  The Princess Chang Le is fifteen years old this year. Two years ago, she was married to the son of Grand General Zhangsun Wuji, Zhangsun Chong, and can be considered a perfect match! At the age of fifteen, she is elegant and refined, with a pure and lovely appearance, surpassing the ordinary. Her beauty and talent bring joy to everyone in the grand hall! The Princess Chang Le's beauty is one of the few that has been passed down through history, and the historian praised her as: "The princess possesses a noble spirit, inherited from the imperial family, and received brilliant teachings from her parents and teachers... She shines like the moonlight on a clear night, illuminating the jade forest, and glows like the morning clouds reflecting on the pearl river." The translation is: "The princess is like an immortal fairy, bringing extraordinary spirit to the palace; she inherits the teachings of her parents and teachers, cultivating her virtues... Elegant and refined, surpassing the ordinary, like moonlight shining in a dense forest; fresh and beautiful, radiant and dazzling, like morning clouds shining on the Pearl River." The language is elegant and beautiful, with careful composition, making it a pleasure to read. Although the author's name is unknown, whoever wrote this must have been appointed by the emperor, and was undoubtedly a famous scholar of the time.

  Princess Gaoyang is about eleven years old this year and will be married in two years.

  Li Yuanba found out that Chang Le had already gotten married, so he didn't say anything. However, perhaps everyone has a heart that loves to play matchmaker, Li Yuanba asked Gaoyang with interest: "Li Ling, you're also approaching the age of marriage, what kind of person are you looking for? Maybe Uncle can help arrange one for you."

  Gaoyang also didn't hesitate, saying to Li Yuanba: "Uncle has a mind, my niece likes the gentle and elegant bookworms, as for those who love to fight and kill, my niece doesn't want them!"

  "Huh? Those with great martial prowess can protect their homes and expand their territories. In the face of absolute power, all strategies are just paper tigers! You actually like those bookworms, how strange!" Li Yuanba couldn't understand what was going on in Gao Yang's mind, this is a world that values martial arts after all!

  "Uncle's words, I don't agree! How many people in the world can surpass Uncle's martial arts? Moreover, I heard that Uncle had two wives in his early years..." Gao Yang's voice dropped down.

  Li Yuanba waved his hand, and his mood suddenly fell: "Yes! I used to think that with my martial arts skills, no one dared to hurt my family! But there are always those who don't know their place! In a fit of rage, I killed millions, and blood flowed for thousands of miles. With my own strength, I resisted the world, but this couldn't bring back my loved one! A good man has three helpers, this saying is not deceiving me! However, which path in life is smooth? I have two more things to say to you: this world will always be where the strong prey on the weak, this is an unchanging truth! Refined and elegant words require knowledge to accumulate, so his cultivation must be affected. A bookworm is useless, and a scholar encountering a soldier can't explain himself clearly, these are problems with one's own martial arts! I understand the dangers of this world, my unparalleled martial arts couldn't even protect my loved one, do you think those scholars with low cultivation can protect you? Moreover, a person's refinement isn't innate, it's something that anyone can cultivate through effort. And, humph! The scarcity of knowledge in this era is something I find unbearable! Nowadays, the aristocracy runs amok, and I'm too lazy to care! Understanding worldly affairs is all about learning, and being well-versed in human emotions is just literature! As a martial artist, who can't recite poetry? Hmm?! If Second Brother marries you off to a martial artist, won't you bring shame to your husband's family?"

  Li Yuanba said that he suddenly remembered why this Gao Yang princess was so familiar! Framing the Fang family, eloping with a monk, and finally rebelling and being forced to commit suicide, bringing shame to the Li family's reputation!

  It's none of his business, so Li Yuanba didn't say anything. But this was his own niece, and he couldn't sit still, it was unbearable!